VLV2014 wk2 - Great Friend Birthday Greetings

Had to use more of this fun paper from the More Amore Speciality and worked on another Viva La Verve Sketch. This one is week two designed by Teresa Kline.

Here is my card:

I've changed this card so many times between stamp sets, ribbons or no ribbon, etc. I'm sure we have all had these moments, but I had fun playing with all of the different elements. This card used the stamp set: Great Friend (Verve) along with Borderline (Verve) for the chevron look which was embossed in white.

Here I used several of my blueprint dies from MFT, blueprint 1, 3 and 5 along with the Flag it Die, and Elegant Leaves by Verve. I did do some fuzzy cut for the flowers and popped them up using foam mount in between. Added some liquid pearl for the center and there you go. 

Like I said before, I changed this card several times so here is another picture of the same card, but with polka dot flower in the center. The reason for it was for someone who loves polka dots.

What do you think? Which one do you like better...with polka dots or without for the top center flower? Below is a full list of supplies used for this card.

Again, don't forget to check out the new Viva La Verve sketch challenge.

Supplies Used: 
Stamp Set: Great Friend (Verve), Borderline (Verve)
Paper: More Adore (SU), Brights DSP pack (SU)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Early Espresso

Inks: Early Espresso, Memento Tuxedo Black, Old Olive
Accessories:  Blueprints 1, 3, 5 (MFT), Flag it Die & Elegant Leaves (A Cut Above by Verve), Liquid Pearl, Foam Mount, White embossing powder 

Viva La Sketch - Great Friend & Bloom & Grow

Love this sketch and I've been wanting to play along with the Viva La Sketch challenge for a while now, so figured to give it a try this month and hope to finish the other sketches by June 27th deadline. 

Here is the challenge:

Check out the Viva la Verve Master Challenge Thread for all the details on how to be entered to win a $100 Verve gift certificate by playing along with all of the sketches for June! All four cards must be uploaded to the VLVJun2013 gallery by midnight, CST on Thursday, June 27th.

Here is my card below:

 

Finally got a chance to play with this wonderful Verve stamp set: Great Friend. It has wonderful flowers and sentiments which I love. Also got to play with more papers by SU and will update this post with the names later today. The background paper already comes with the beautiful embossing images and it looks wonderful in person.

Here is a close up of the flower. I used foam mount in between the flowers to make it pop out more and added glitter details to add something extra with a little basic rhinestone in the middle.

Here I used Verve's A Cut Above Dies starting with the Charming Oval Die set (Summer Starfruit & Early Expresso cardstock - SU) & matching Charming Banner Die set.  The sentiment comes from the set: Great Friend and ink used was Real Red (SU).

The beautiful leaves came from the Verve stamp set: Bloom & Grow and cut out using the Elegant Leaves Die set.

Click here to go directly to the challenge of week one over at Splitcoaststampers and have some fun creating. It's very therapeutic and I'm sure you will enjoy!!